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Getting hung up and wasting time getting photos of that newbie Luger. Re-Assembly after easy field-strip. But reassembling something is wrong, I'm sure me. Half way through the reassembly, when putting the "slide" back on the receiver along the runners, I can get the Coupling Link to go where it should, just behind the two prongs of the Recoil Spring Lever.

But I imagine the curve of the coupling link needs to slip between the prongs when the slide is moved back the last bit. But mine is not free-moving enough to do that without some help. Probably a little gunk up there though I did blow it out and lubed. With the grips off it's no problem. I just move the the Coupling link down with a finger, and it slides up to the notches to the top of the Recoil Spring Lever where it should be. Thus the slide is attached to the armature that in turn attaches to the Main-Spring. And the slide has proper tension. Before I learned to "help" the Coupling Link take its proper position, the slide was not attached to the Main-Spring and had no tension.

But after the slide is linked to Main Spring the barrel is frozen, won't budge. So, the next step, putting the little side plate back on is impossible. When it was easy to do that the barrel could move a bit and that helped a lot to get the plate back on.

As well, the barrel cannot be pushed "in" as the direction say in order to move the Take Down Bolt back to a horizontal position.

So I get a slide attached to the the main-spring and has proper tension, or I can complete the last two steps of reassembly (side plate and Take-Down Bolt). But i can't have both. I'm seeing some smith who knows Lugers pretty well. He should spot what I'm doing wrong.